Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-07
enough TO employ 700 men in reducing

Inc demand for labor is growing
rapidly, and with it the desire for
higher pay and shorter hours.
Banks are multiplying in the south.
AT Knoxville the number will be in
creased from three to seven. Nash
vile will have q bank with q Ca ,ital of
$4,000, 900.
The Connecticut legislature has
passed an act calling for weekly pay
ments by corporations to the extent of
81 per cent. OF earnings and one full
%settlehhent n C a month.
The nine hour workmen in many
cities are willing to strike for eight
hours. but the officials of the union
doubt the urgency and expediency Of
such a movement at this time.
Eastern shoe manufactu1 ers are re-
ceiving invitations from manufacture
ers big and little in some of the middle
and western states to come there and
settle under free land and no taxa
ton.
Wages of workers in leather have
been downward since 1885 from 10 to
IL per cent. Wages in the silk mills
OF Patterson range from 50 10 SIS.
Blast furnace employees are paid from
10 to II per cent. more.
There is a probability of II partial
suspension of some New England
mills. The hosiery interests of New
York are still full of orders and have
good prospects.
Russia has 48S cotton mills with
$3.50 looms, where $4,000 workmen
find employ ment, producing goods
worth So. coo, 900 per annum Linen
is made IN 81 factories. which furnish
employment to 2j,5O0 workmen.
Andrew Ca-negie's furnaces at
Pittsburg make as much iron per year
rs was made in the entire country in
1861. Pittsburg has the largest steel
melting establishments in the world.
The city melts 800 tons per day.
The machinists on the Pacific coast
are extremely busy with orders Of AL
kinds of machinery and appliances to
meet the rushing demand. Mexico,
Arizona, Montana and Colorado are
very heavy buyers.
New England trades-unionism is of
"A tanner sort than in the west. The
shoe towns are the most active in the
propagation Of unionlsm. The textile
town takes things easier. Employ ers
are Strengthening their defensive or
CARNATIONS.
The makers of blast furnace machin-
cry and of mill equipments and appli.
ances have not been SO crowded with
orders for many years. A Chicago
syndicate has ju,t purchased n rolling
mill ar Howard. Pa, and will intro
duce the Bessemcr process.
Within two years 400 1000 skilled
mechanics have been set to work in
the chief cities in the United States.
A fair guess would put the increase all
over the country at 800, 900.
Electric railways are now running
or built in twenty-three towns and
cities Of the United States. An cleo
tricai authority states that there are
scores Of places where roads are seri-
ously proposed. The Los Angeles
electric motor is n of the most sue
c~essful. Four ears are running,
twelve miles AN hour.
Industrial prospects are favorable in
the northwest. The projection Of
railroad enterprises keeps up conf
dence and high prices. The distribu-
ton of lumber III the northwest sur
passes al past records, and The lumber
manufacturers are fully prepared for
"a most active season.
The labor bill before the New York
Legislature proposes an income tax of
| per cent. on income from $4,000 to
$1,000, 2 per ent on from $4,000 to
SO 900, Z per cent. on from $4,000 to
$50. 600, and 20 per cent. on from $780,
900 to 100000, and so per cent. on
800, 900 and upwards.
The London labor leaders are taking
a novel way Of pushing forward labor
organization. They have had several
hundred professions and several huge
meetings in squares and parks. Hynd-
man, the leader, intends TO carry out
his programme
A mass indignation meeting was held
in New York to d%enounce Judge
Brown, of the United States circuit
court. for his decision that boycotting
is illegal, and that meml . 5 of associ-
ations who enforce boycotts are liable
to civil and criminal prosecution.
Printers Assembly No. GA has de-
%nounced the bill extending the terri
t0rial and land law to Alaska, because
it allows the original grantees to hold
their possessions and sell land to new
conner. at high prices.
TRADES UNIONS IN ENGLAND.